Word: rand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William C. Norris, 52, is an ardent baseball and football fan and an exhaustively meticulous planner. He keeps the company's growth timetable projected for years ahead in a top-secret, five-inch-thick notebook. Such elaborate forethought has paid off. In six years since he left Sperry Rand's Univac division to start on his own, Norris has made Control Data into a company with yearly sales of more than $63 million; last week he announced the purchase of the California-based control-systems division of Daystrom Inc. A quiet man, shy to the point of brusqueness...
...rugby game with Great Britain at Bloemfontein brought about a racial slugfest that resulted in a ten-year ban on black and colored spectators in that city; five years ago, a similar clash forced officials to halt a South Africa-Britain soccer match in Johannesburg's Rand Stadium...
...Cate's lighting and Leigh Rand's scenery utilized the theatre's facilities ingeniously. The first scene, aboard the ship Empress Pantagonia, opens on the couple seated on deck chairs in front of several blue, paint-spattered screens whose swirling color suggests the ocean. Later the same screens serve as an inconspicuous backdrop for an attractive and colorful village-shop counter where the writer again meets the shopgirl...
...with a Dutch name. He majored in economics at Stanford, went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and, as a lanky 6-foot 4-incher, rowed No. 4 on the New College crew. As a mathematician and economist he spent four years with California's think factory, the Rand Corp., just pondering military strategy. And then, in 1960, he went to the Pentagon...
Listed with Kissinger and Schelling among the "militarists" is Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute and formerly of the Rand Corporation...